Shauna MacLeod in Nova Scotia Potters Guild Exhibition QUAFF: To Drink Deeply at Government House in Halifax

Nova Scotia ceramic artist Shauna MacLeod.
Photo credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

Shauna MacLeod and colleagues from the Nova Scotia Potters Guild exhibit their work in  QUAFF: To Drink Deeply at Government House in Halifax. The show runs from September 20 - October 27.

Shauna graduated from NSCAD University in 2011, and founded Black Crow Pottery in 2012. She’s one of the few ceramic artists who work with red Nova Scotia earthenware clay as her main ingredient.

While studying at NSCAD, Shauna received a number of scholarships, including one from the Talent Trust, as well as honourable mention in an art competition for the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation. 

She’s shown her work in solo and group exhibitions, and participated in the Summer Professional Development Residency with the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design. 

This past summer Shauna was artist in residence at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21.

The works in QUAFF will be presented on plinths throughout the public rooms at Government House, displayed amongst the historic furniture. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to pick out a touchstone, which is a small fired-clay memento, made by members of the Potters Guild.

QUAFF exhibition dates include Nocturne, Halifax’s annual celebration of art at night. Artists from the Potters Guild will be on hand to demonstrate throwing on a potter’s wheel and hand-building throughout the evening.

Exhibition details
September 20 - October 27, 2018
Government House
1451 Barrington Street, Halifax

Tuesdays 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. September 25 and 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. October 16
Thursdays 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. September 20, 27; October 11, 18
Saturdays 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. September 22, October 6, 20, 27
Sunday 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. October 7
NOCTURNE, October 13: 6:00 p.m. - midnight


Check the Nova Scotia Potters Guild website for schedule changes.

An illustrated talk will be given by the Potters Guild on Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 7:00 p.m. Admission is free. Visit the Government House website to register.

Wishing you all a great Nocturne art night in Halifax and Dartmouth

Congratulations Nocturne on your 10th anniversary. 

Tonight is the night to enjoy art on the street, on the water, and inside.

Have fun Dartmouth and Halifax! 

Thank you to all the organizers and artists that make this event happen. 

Visit the projects of former Talent Trust scholarship recipients:

Jason Skinner

Alexis Milligan

Ruth Ellen-Kroll

Sarah Mosher

Janice Jackson 

Mike Hirschbach

Lukas Pearse

Veronique Mackenzie

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Janice Jackson creates 'Opera From Scrap' at Nocturne October 14, 2017

Opera From Scrap

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Janice Isabel Jackson

& Arianne Pollet-Brannen
at Nocturne October 14, 2017

from 6 p.m. - midnight 

RBC Waterside Centre,
1871 Upper Water St

"Opera From Scrap" is an interactive opera by Janice Isabel Jackson, transformed into a phantasmagorical creature in real time by Arianne Pollet-Brannen.

"Opera from Scrap" is an interactive opera. The soloist, Janice Isabel Jackson, transforms into a phantasmagorical opera character while an elaborate costume is constructed onto her by visual artist Arianne Pollet-Brannen. Materials for the costume will be assembled from scraps of fabric, some of which contributed by the audience. In a similar manner, material for the opera will be assembled from live tweets, texts and melodies submitted by the public as well as various sounds extracted from the surroundings. Words, tweets, stories, scraps of paper, fabric, flowers, and other unplanned items will all converge in a manner that completely transforms the vocalist. The singer is required to absorb and create sounds and melodies that will either be concrete stories, unexpected random expressions, or abstract sounds throughout the performance. This project allows the public to experience a continuous transformation throughout the evening. Short recordings of audience comments and singing will also be taken and played back as part of the landscape during the ongoing performance. At the end of the evening, at 11:15pm, the public is invited to return to the scene and experience the fruits of the slow metamorphosis in which the re-envisioned and costumed opera singer presents a newly created 30-minute opera. This manifestation of visual and performance art creates a platform where the audience becomes a storyteller, composer, collaborator, and co-conspirator throughout. Write your words and ideas on scraps of paper and material, tell us your stories, sing your songs, tweet us @jacksonnewmusic

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Sculpture/3D
Audience Interaction
Family Friendly

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Jason Skinner presents 'Riding the Rails' at Nocturne Halifax October 14, 2017

Nocturne at the Museum

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Andrea Tsang Jackson, Jason Skinner

Nocturne October 14, 2017

6 PM - midnight

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21,

1099 chemin Marginal Rd

"Nocturne at the Museum" highlights our tenuous connections to our past: our changing memories of our collective past as we move further away from it, and our reimagining and reframing of our past as we try to capture something that we can no longer quite grasp. Two artists and one organization will each provide unique interpretations of these themes in the context of the Museum’s unique position as a National Historical Site: a point of arrival for over a million immigrants, as well as a point of departure for many of these immigrants to other parts of Canada.

The two artists whose work considers these questions are Andrea Tsang Jackson and Jason Skinner. There will also be a project presented by Library and Archives Canada.

Andrea Tsang Jackson’s proposed work "Georges Island Quilted Over" is a participatory illuminated paper quilt project that becomes an opaque window.

Jason Skinner will animate the colonist car outside the Museum with his work "Riding the Rails" a series of portraits exploring the possible worlds and lives of immigrants who arrived to Canada by Pier 21, but left for other parts of Canada.

Library and Archives Canada will explore "Going Dark: Extinguished Lighthouses of Atlantic Canada," a presentation which exposes the importance of archives to understanding our changing landscape and our understanding of ourselves.

Still Images
Moving Images
Performance
Sculpture/3D
Audience Interaction
Family Friendly

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Sarah Mosher with 'Inter-Harbor Communication Co.' at Nocturne Halifax October 14, 2017

Inter-Harbour Communication Co.

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Sarah Mosher, visual artist and Ben Mosher

Nocturne October 14, 2017

6 PM - midnight

Halifax Marriott Harbourfront,
1919 Upper Water St

Reimagining and rediscovering early inter-harbour communications through a playful and interactive experience.

"Inter-Harbour Communication Company" connects to a fragment of our partially forgotten heritage; Nova Scotia was home to one of the largest early high-speed communication networks in the world. Visual telegraphy allowed messages to be delivered at speeds unimaginable in a world of letters and post, taking hours not days to reach their destination. By reenacting the methods of these early messaging systems, this project playfully subverts their colonial roots and allows public participation in a communication system built on the foundation of British military communication methods.

In 1795, under the direction of British commander Edward Duke of Kent, troops were made to construct a communication network in our province. The nature of this network was a line of signalling towers using a fiercely-guarded coded language of flags and balls on masts. The extent of the network was one of the largest visual semaphore networks in the world, stretching from Sambro Island to Fredricton. Kent's vision for his visual telegraph network was for it to allow him to relay messages to Quebec City without his need to leave Halifax. This convoluted and costly venture only remained viable for a few years before being discontinued at large with The Duke of Kent's departure from Halifax in the early 1800's.

This system also allowed for inter-harbour communication between commercial and military groups. "Inter-Harbour Communication Company" allows the opening of inter-harbour communications through the use of visual signs and rudimentary phone lines. This playful engagement with communication methods portends a possibility for the distortion and allows an openness of lines of dialogue between the two sides of the harbour.

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Audience Interaction
Family Friendly

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Alexis Milligan at Nocturne October 14, 2017 at Northwood Senior Care Centre in Halifax

NOCTURNE HALIFAX at NORTHWOOD:

Performances include Prism - a choose your own adventure theatre experience with Alexis Milligan.

October 14 from 6 p.m. - midnight


Where's the Funk?? - Dance, choreographed by Kendra Armstrong - featuring dancers from Leica Hardy School of dance (some Talent Trust scholarship recipients might be in that group too (smile)).

Lisa Cochrane presents: LaHave River Jamboree. Be part of the live audience of a fictitious radio program with cross dressing DJ Harold Anderson spinning vinyl from his private collection of Old Style Country tunes.

https://nocturnehalifax.ca/

Veronique MacKenzie and Lukas Pearse at Nocturne October 14, 2017 Central Library Halifax

Depths of Sorrow

Veronique MacKenzie FB screen shot

at Nocturne: Vanish at the Halifax Central Library on Saturday, October 14, 2017 from 6 p.m. - midnight.

Depths of Sorrow will be viewable from the exterior front courtyard (rear screen video projections against the windows of the 5th floor) with infrared capture of live dance, animation, and original sound score by Motion Activated: 
Lukas Pearse, Veronique MacKenzie, Susan Tooke.

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Mike Hirschbach's Halifax Circus at Nocturne October 14, 2017 in Halifax

Halifax Circus

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with Mike Hirschbach 

from 6 PM - midnight

October 14, 2017

at

Halifax Circus,
1479 Barrington St

Halifax Circus presents their annual celebration of circus with the amazing fire show outside, astounding aerials in the sanctuary, and intriguing student demos in the gym. Don't miss this amazing show that is seen by over 10,000 people annually.

Halifax Circus celebrates circus arts, movement, theatre and performance with their annual performances at Nocturne. Included are their astonishing fire show outside, astounding aerials in the sanctuary, and intriguing student demos in the gym. Their performers have performed across Canada and the US, in Europe, Costa Rica, Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong and India.

Don't miss this show that is seen by over 10,000 people annually.

Performance
Audience Interaction
Family Friendly

Not wheelchair accessible • No washrooms

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Nocturne 2016 - October 15, 2016 features several NSTT former Scholarship Recipients

Nocturne Halifax, October 15 from 6 p.m. - midnight

Nocturne is a wonderful event in itself but it is even better to see so many former scholarship recipients involved in it. 

This year you can see:
105. Lukas Pearse at Halifax City Hall

103. and 127. Mike Hirschbach's Halifax Circus at Barrington Street - St. Matthew's Church

113. Charley Young at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in a hands-on activity in the AGNS studio

117. Lukas Pearse with SuddenlyListen at 1313 Hollis Street

132. The portrait of Portia White at Government House, Barrington Street (smile)

212. Pamela Ritchie and Dorothée B. Rosen at Mary E. Black Gallery, 1061 Marginal Road

320. Robert Calnen at the Hidden Gallery, 1469 Birmingham Street

325. Shauntay Grant at Dalhousie Art Gallery

402. Jason Skinner at Propeller Brewery, 2015 Gottingen Street

The numbers are in reference to the Nocturne's map/location. 

To see the Nocturne online guide or download the program please go to: http://nocturnehalifax.ca/guide